US: The 112-room Crawford Hotel in Denver will open this
weekend in an 1880 Beaux Arts station building.

The project, in the former Union Station building, was devised by
David Tryba of Denver-based Tryba Architects and architect/designer
J. G. Johnson. "It was like an enormous puzzle that took months,
and ultimately years, to untangle and eventually put back together.
It was a team effort," said Tryba.

The designers devised three room categories, one for each floor of
the hotel: on the third floor, the Classic rooms (housed in the
station's former executive offices) feature cast-iron Corinthian
columns and ten-foot-high doors. Above those, on a newly built
mezzanine, the Pullman rooms draw inspiration from the sleeping
berths found on trains in the 1930s and '40s.